Re: INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS - why?

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 August 2011 14:02, Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey list!
>
> I've been wondering why the option `interactive_comments' is there at
> all. I thought, that maybe comments would clash with some corner cases
> of `extended_glob', like when you have a file called "a  b" and try a
> glob "a\ #b".  But that is not the case.
>
> Since I couldn't find a technical reason for it, it might be there for
> emulating the behaviour of another shell. My guess would be csh or tcsh,
> which behave like that, too AFAIK.
>
> Can someone confirm that suspicion or did I miss a technical issue that
> can be avoided by having `interactive_comments' unset?

% setopt noextendedglob
% touch #foo
% ls #foo
#foo

?

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Mikael Magnusson